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12312312mathematics: Numeral Systems
12312312mathematics: Numeral Systems
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Numeral systems[edit]
There is some evidence to suggest that early man may have used counting systems which consisted
of "One, Two, Three" and thereafter "Many" to describe counting limits. Early peoples had a word to
describe the quantities of one, two, and three but any quantity beyond was simply denoted as
"Many". This is most likely based on the prevalence of this phenomenon among people in such
disparate regions as the deep Amazon and Borneo jungles, where western civilization's explorers
have historical records of their first encounters with these indigenous people.[4]
Mathematics[edit]
3 is:
Numeral systems[edit]
There is some evidence to suggest that early man may have used counting systems which consisted
of "One, Two, Three" and thereafter "Many" to describe counting limits. Early peoples had a word to
describe the quantities of one, two, and three but any quantity beyond was simply denoted as
"Many". This is most likely based on the prevalence of this phenomenon among people in such
disparate regions as the deep Amazon and Borneo jungles, where western civilization's explorers
have historical records of their first encounters with these indigenous people.[4]